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In the initial days and weeks after those terrorist attacks, America attracted huge sympathy from the entire world, but we would soon squander that important geostrategic asset by launching an unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq, justifying that attack by blatant lies regarding Saddam Hussein’s WMDs. The cycle of resulting wars we set into motion would lead to the death or displacement of many millions of Muslim civilians, severely damaging our national reputation and upsetting the regional balance of power. Those wars mostly ended in shame and humiliation, while costing our country as much as eight trillion dollars. My old friend Bill Odom, the three-star general who had run the NSA for Ronald Reagan, later described our Iraq War as “the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history,” and I entirely seconded his verdict.